Ashley Binstock
May, 2025
Mote Marine Laboratory
B.S., Environmental Science, University of St. Thomas (Biology Concentration; Creative Writing Minor)
Ashley Binstock is the Water Quality Monitoring Intern at the MWMO for the Summer of 2025. She is entering her final year at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, where she studies environmental science with a concentration in biology and a minor in creative writing. This summer, she will assist in field operations that include water quality sampling, storm drain maintenance, and other watershed operations. Additionally, she will conduct her own research project on an area of interest over the upcoming months. In the past, she has conducted coral research for Mote Marine Laboratory in the Florida Keys, as well as assisted with agricultural research projects in her home state of Nebraska.